WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1959
Find out what all happened June to November 1959

In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction. (1. November 1959)

Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. (23. September 1959)

The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference. (1. July 1959)

Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire. (3. June 1959)

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. (8. September 1959)

Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. (17. August 1959)

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. (15. September 1959)

The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. (16. September 1959)

The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships. (26. June 1959)

The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. (14. September 1959)

A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed. (14. June 1959)

Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit. (18. September 1959)

U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. (7. October 1959)

Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. (2. November 1959)

Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game. (1. November 1959)

First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union. (29. July 1959)

A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood. (30. June 1959)

The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait. (23. September 1959)

The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway. (2. November 1959)

At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate". (24. July 1959)